FreeBSD Port: nessus-2.0.6a

[Udo Schweigert]

On Sat, Jun 28, 2003 at 01:45:02 -0500, Brian Bailey wrote:
> I was getting errors with trying to run the script, nessus-update-plugins. I was logged on as root at the time.
> 
> Line 243 of the script reads:
> $fetch_cmd $proxyopts http://www.nessus.org/nasl/all-2.0.tar.gz > all-2.0.tar.gz
> 
> This creates two files(assuming wget is used):
> all-2.0.tar.gz => contains no data
> all-2.0.tar.gz.1 => contains 1023377 bytes
> 
> The rest of the script was calling for the file all-2.0.tar.gz which contained 0 bytes.
> The script was failing with the error on line 258:
> "Something went wrong when installing plugins - uncompressing the plugins archive failed"
> 
> I changed line 243 to read:
> $fetch_cmd $proxyopts http://www.nessus.org/nasl/all-2.0.tar.gz
> 
> This resolved the issue, as the correct file, all-2.0.tar.gz, was successfully created. This allowed the script to execute successfully.
> 
> I'm not sure if this should be going to you or the development team at nessus.org. If you are not the contact for this issue, please let me know!
> 

I can't reproduce that problem here. What's your FreeBSD version and what
does your .nessus-update-pluginsrc look like?

Best regards

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